Combined trunk buffer and caster



(fin Model.) S. M. MIOHELSON.

CDMBINBD TRUNK BUFFER AND OAS'TER.

No. 318,096. Patented Mar. 3,1885.

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UNITED STATES, PATENT rica.

SIGISMUND M. MIGHELSQN, OFMILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

COMBINED- TRUNK BUFFER AND CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,096, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed June 7. 1883. (No model.)

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGIsMUND M. MICHEL- soN, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of Visconson, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Trunk Bumper and Roller Combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates'to trunks; and it consists in the combination of a roller with a solid revolving metallic bumper, containing said roller, in connection with a trunk-body cut away at the corner edges to allow said bumpers to project beyond the cut-away corners, and a metallic corner-iron for receiving said revolving bumper and its roller, all as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of one end of a trunk-body having my device attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line a: w of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is an under side plan view of my device.

A represents a portion of a trunk-body, and A represents the corner thereof, beveled or cut away vertically, on the dotted line 3 y of Fig. 3,between the front and end of the trunk-body. Each corner is thus beveled or cut away between the front and ends andrear and ends of the trunk-body, and each corner of the bottom 13 of the trunk is provided with my device, be ing cut away to receive the corner-iron O, which has two upward-extending wings, G O, preferably solidly connected by central wings, a, at an angle to the said wings O 0', so that the latter. wings are respectively against one end and the adjacent front or rear of the trunkbody, as the case may be, and also having downward-extending partially-circular wall 0 whose lower edge is flush with the lower surface of the bottom B of the trunk-body, while the outer vertical edges, 0 o,of said wall only extend to the cut-away portion of the trunk-corners, the said wall being therefore about three-fourths of a circle, and the whole corner-iron,wings, and wall, CO C c (3 c 0, being preferably cast solidly in one piece,and (after receiving the bumper, 8m.) adapted to be readily fastened to the corners of the trunk by nails or screws in the ordinary manner.

D is the revolving bumper, cast in one solid cylindrical piece of metal, with a central vertical perforation, d, and a recess, d, as shown trunk, as shown by the two dotted lines back of the dotted line y 1 in Fig. 3, and wholly above the lower edge of the said revolving bumper, which is held in place by the vertical pivot c, upset or riveted above the horizontal plate of the corner-iron C, and below the bot tom surface of the revolvingbumper D. Hence it will be seen that the said bumper wholly fills up the circular recess formed by the walls (3 and horizontal plate of the corner-iron O,and projects only beyond the cutaway corners of the trunk, (where the concussions and wear chiefly come) and, as the spherical roller E also fills up the recess d in said bumper, there is absolutely no space left around either the bumper or the roller for the entrance of any pebbles, dirt, snow, or other foreign substance which might tend to clog up and interfere with the revolution of the bumper or roller while the trunk is being dragged about depot-platforms, &c., and as both the bumper and roller freely revolve, should any obstacle(such as a projecting nail or spike) be encountered the bumper would instantly swing around out of the way, carrying the roller with it, and thus avoid such obstacle and permit the trunk to be freely moved in any direction--'a result further facilitated by the fact that the pivot or journal of the roller is wholly above the lower surface of the bumper,which, as stated, is flush with the lower surface of the trunk-bottom, and hence there is no projecting part anywhere to catch in holes or spaces between planks of the depotplatform, car,or baggage-room; but a trunk fitted with my device will move smoothly over any surface, no matter how uneven or irregular the same may be.

I am aware that heretofore trunk-rollers have been constructed with a shell or housing, having bearings below its surface for the reception of the journals of the roller, the said shell being capable of revolution ind ep endently of the motion of the roller, and such I do not claim. Instead of a shell or housing, I use a solid cylindrical-shaped body, which not only receives in a recess the greater part of the roller proper, and supports the journals of the roller above its lower surface, but which likewise projects beyond the cut-away corners of the trunk-body and acts as a revolving bumper, its solidity effectually guarding the roller against the possibility of damage, and at the same time doing away with all necessity for independent bumpers or corner bosses, and therein being an improvement on the device patented to me June 26, 1883.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

v 1. In combination with a corner-iron, a solid revolving metallic bumper pivoted thereto and projecting therefrom beyond the edges of the corner-irons, and provided with a recess, within which revolves a spherical roller, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a trunk-body-beveled, or cut away, vertically at the corners, and recessed at the corners of the bottom, the cornor-irons 0, having downward projecting partly-circular walls whose lower edges are flush with the bottom of the trunk, and which form recesses within which revolve solid metallie bumpers, projecting beyond the cornerirons, and each bearing a roller revolving within a recess in said solid bumper, the j our;

nal of the said roller being above the lower surface of the said bumper, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with a trunk, the solid revolving metallic corner-bumpers D, pivoted to corner-irons and projecting therefrom beyond the edges of the corner-irons and the corner edges of the trunk, and flush with the bottom of the trunk,and bearing the rollers E, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with a trunk, having vertically-beveled or cut-away corners,the cornerirons G, having horizontal fiat plate, upwardextending wings O c O and downward-projecting partly-circular walls 0 flush with the bottom of the trunk, and forming recesses to receive revolving bumpers, the said bumpers projecting beyond the edges of the corner- 5 irons and the corner edges of the trunk, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my.hand,on this 31st day of May, 1883, in the presfiice of two witnesses.

SIGISMUND M. MIOHELSON.

Witnesses:

STANLEY S. SToUT, H. G. UNDERwooD. 

